Sentence examples for declared ambition of from inspiring English sources

Their arrival is another step in Ireland's long, patient progress toward its declared ambition of becoming the 11th member of cricket's elite — the group of nations permitted to play five-day test matches.

The emergence of pariah states, such as North Korea (possibly soon to be joined by Iran), armed with nuclear weapons was adding to the fear as was the declared ambition of terrorists to steal, buy or build a nuclear device.

The declared ambition of some leaders of the country's biggest unions to use the election as a means of regaining effective control of Labour — and with it, the political and economic power they lost during the Thatcher years — has carried strong overtones of the years of Labour rule in the 1970s.

The declared ambition of the home track-and-field team, when the action gets under way in the showpiece Olympic Stadium on Friday, is to launch a new golden era and to take the public profile of British athletics back to the heady days of the 1970s and 1980s.

Bad news for the Archbishop of Canterbury: competing Wonga out of existence, which is Justin Welby's declared ambition for credit unions, ain't going to be easy.

As long as Bush and his party kept winning elections, however slim the margins, Rove's declared ambition to create a "permanent majority" seemed like the vision of a tactical genius.

The innovative and protean British writer China Miéville's declared ambition to write a novel in every genre offers an insight into his powers of invention.

A declared ambition to photograph every place on Earth burlesquing their own status as globe-trotting biennial stars likely fell short of that goal.

In line with this strategy and legal requirements, the plant has a declared ambition to deliver only Salmonella-safe animal feed materials to customers/animal feed mills.

Singapore and Malaysia have declared ambitions to welcome at least 1m Chinese next year.

Namibia has declared ambitions to eliminate malaria by 2020 [ 1, 2] and this is embodied in the country's vision for 2030 that aims to abolish diseases of poverty [ 3].